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O'Hanlons
Give Memorial
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Amphitheatre
Outdoor dramatic and musical performances will soon be possible on the college campus.
The seat for such open air productions
will be the Michael Terrence O'Hanlon
Memorial Amphitheatre on which construction began in late March.
The amphitheatre, to be located on a
section of wooded land adjacent to a
small lake, will seat approximately 250
persons initially and 500 when it is completed. The first section is marked for
late spring completion.
Several years ago Mr. and Mrs. I. H.
O'Hanlon of Fayetteville established the
Michael Terrence O'Hanlon Memorial
Fund in memory of their son who, had
he lived, would have been 20 years old
this past February 19. The- amphitheatre is a gift from that fund.
In addition to outdoor musical programs and dramatics, Easter services and
other similar programs will be held in
the facility.
Beauty Queens Return
Mr. and Mrs. I. H. O/Hanlon are shown on location discussing plans for the Michael
Terrence O/Hanlon Memorial Amphitheatre
to be built on campus.
Eighth Religious Emphasis Week Observed
Joy Ray (left) and Pam Zollars, Meth·
odist College coeds, arrive at the Fay·
etteville
airport after an Alaskan holi·
day. See story, page 3, columns 2 and 3.
"Who Am I?" was the theme of the
Eighth Annual Religious Emphasis Week
held on the Methodist College campus
February 26-March 3.
Featured speaker
for the week's program was the Rev.
Charles
Hubbard,
pastor, First Methodist Church, Wilson, N. C. The Rev:
Mr. Hubbard
suggested possible approaches
tot
h 'e
theme question.
Individuals are to
blame for the world
situation in which they find themselves,
the minister said in his opening speech.
"Man refuses to believe anything but
the best about himself," the spiritual
leader pointed out. He blames everything but himself for the problems of
the world.
"Don't build on a lie," the Rev. Mr.
Hubbard warned.
A native of North Carolina, the minister has held several pastorates in the
state, among them Trinity in Raleigh
and University Church in Chapel Hill.
He attended the University of North
Carolina and Duke University and holds
the A.B. and B.D. degrees. Active in the
North Carolina Conference of the Meth·
odist Church, he was one of the organizers of the Methodist Foundation, Inc.,
and president of the board of Christian
Social Concerns. He is currently serving
on the Commission on World Service
and Finance.
NEWSLETTER
Page Two
March,
Takes DIAC Wrestling Championship
Methodist
--.~
1968
Guests and Artists
Cynthia Gooding, a nationally-known
folk singer, opened the second semester
Concert-Lecture Series of Methodist College on February 8 with a strikingly
beautiful and well-attended performance.
Elwood Adams, violinist, appeared in
concert February 21. World-renowned,
he has performed in Russia, Germany,
Belgium, France, Romania, Poland and
Canada.
The East Carolina University Concert
Choir, under the direction of Charles W,
Moore, delivered a colorful and varied
performance
for the Concert-Lecture
Series March 2.
Methodist College grapplers brought home the Dixie Conference wrestling championship recently upsetting favored St. Andrews College in the conference tournament
at St. Andrews. The Monarchs took four of the eight classes they entered and
forfeited the unlimited class. Victory for the Monarchs took shape as Tommy Spence,
a freshman from Alexandria, Va., decisioned his St. Andrews opponent in the semifinals and pinned a lynchburg foe in the finals for the 123-lb. class title. Mike
Buck, a Greenville freshman, swept the 130-1b. class pinning, in turn, wrestlers
from St. Andrews and lynchburg. Richard Swink, a Greensboro junior, added the
167-lb. title by pinning a lynchburg grapppler and decisioning a St. Andrews foe.
Topping off the victory, Mike McBride, a Morehead City freshman, pinned St. Andrews and lynchburg opponents in the 177-lb. class. Methodist also had two runnersup places, Steve Gibson, Winston-Salem, and Warren Montagna, Metuchen, N. J., to
compile a 32-point team total and finish well in front of St. Andrews and lynchburg with 20 points apiece. Pictured above standing from left to right are: Coach
Mason Sykes, Warren Montagna, Richard Swink, Mike McBride; Assistant coach,
Bill Woodall. Front left to right: Tom Spence, Gene Odom, Brian Tuttle and Steve
Gibson.
Darden Collects
Top DIAC Honors
Jim
center
odist
year's
Darden, the Monarch's 6'5" junior
from Clinton, rewrote the MethCollege record book during this
basketball season while compiling
I
of Dixie Conference
1 anhonors.
impressive list
,
For the third-time
i n his three-year
varsity career, Darden was named to
the All-Conference
basketball team. He
was also 'named captain for the All-ConTeam, compiling 57 of the 60
ference
votes.
Darden came out of the season the
top scorer and top rebounder in the
conference. He averaged 20.4 points per
game overall, 19.5 in conference play.
Rebounding, Darden averaged 16.0 per
game in both conference and overall.
The lanky junior also won a berth on
the All-Tournament team after Methodist placed fourth in the Dixie Confer·
ence tourney.
Game marks which fell to Darden this
year include most points per game (36
against Greensboro) and most rebounds
per game (25 against N. C. Wesleyan).
His career totals in points and rebounding also set records as he became
the first Monarch to break the 1,000
point mark ending the season with 1,100.
He has jumped to 908 rebounds.
"Darden is the finest basketball play·
er we've had at Methodist to date,"
Coach Gene Clayton said of the Monarch
co-captain.
Fall Dean's List
Numbers 152
Some 152 students earned academic
honors by qualifying for the 1967-68
fall semester Dean's List, according to
Dr. Samuel J. Womack, Jr., dean of the
college.
To qualify for this honor a student
must earn at least a "B" average on 15
or more semester hours.
Harriet Fitzgerald, director of the
Abingdon Square Painters, New York,
lectured March 7 on "How a Painting
Works" (an introduction to art from a
modern point of view).
Dr. Randall D. Wood, lipid metabolism
scientist with the Oak Ridge Institute of
Nuclear Studies, lectured March 14 on
"Principles
and Applications
of GasLiquid Chromatography." He was sponsored by the campus Science Club.
The
under
fessor
peared
Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra,
the direction of Willis Gates, proof music at Methodist College, apin concert March 16.
The United States Army Field Band
and Soldiers' Chorus appeared in con·
cert March 18. Under the direction of
Lt. CoL Wilmont N. Trumball, the unit
is over one hundred members strong.
Rodney Hill, Methodist College instructor in music, presented a flute and
clarinet recital March 20. Featured pianist on the all sonata program was Rowland Matteson, assistant professor of
chemistry and mathematics at Methodist.
The Musical Arts Woodwind Quintet
of Ball State University, Muncie, Ind.,
performed March 27.
Coming Events
April
24-M. C. Wind Ensemble
Student Union (8 p.m.)
May
I-William
Miller, tenor
Student Union (8 p.m.)
4-Annual May Dance
Student Union
ll-Annual
oratorio
"Israel in Egypt"
Community Chorus
Methodist College Chorus
Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra
Student Union
Page Three
Spanish Club Shows
New York Fashions
Seventeen magazine's March issue fashions walked off the printed page into
Fayetteville's Cumberland County Memorial Auditorium March 21 as the Spanish
Club of Methodist
College
presented
its annual concert
and fashion show.
Following
the
fashion show, The
Impressions
and
James
and Bobby
Purify too k the
stage for a pop
music concert.
The
Seventeen
show brought Daryl
Atkins, the magazine's assistant merchandising coordinator, to Fayetteville
as style commentator. Some 30 Methodist College coeds
modeled over 50 of
the newest spring ensembles.
Cindy
Strickland (see picture), Durham sophomore, is shown modeling one of the
Seventeen fashions.
Miss Atkins, who has her own busine.ss handmaking evening bags for Manhatten boutiques, commentates at style
shows from coast to coast for Seventeen.
Proceeds from the concert - fashion
show will help send Methodist College
students to the University of Madrid for
the summer study program (Spanish cuI·
ture and language) inaugurated in 1966
by the Spanish Club.
Energetic student leaders behind the
project were Spanish Club officers Robert D'Alessandro, Fort Bragg; Ronnie
Russell, Alexandria, Va.; Barbara Schutz,
Atlanta, Ga.; Micky Mazza, Bethlehem,
Pa.; and Connie Autry, Fayetteville.
Assisting the Spanish Club with the
program were the Miss Vogue style shop
"OfFayetteville and Seventeen.
Membership Granted
In American Colleges
Methodist College has been elected a
member of the Association of American
Colleges, an organization which promotes
the interest and welfare of private colleges across the country.
Formal confirmation of this action
was received in January by Dr. L. Stacy
Weaver, president of the college, in a
letter from Dr. Richard H. Sullivan, pre·
sident of the association.
Membership in the association is con·
tingent
upon
regional
accreditation
which Methodist College received in Nov·
ember, 1966, by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
NEWSLETTER
March, 1968
VISIT ALASKA METHODIST
Beauty Queens Return From Alaska Festival
(See picture on page 1)
Joy R~y and Pam Zollars, Methodist
College ambassadors of beauty, were in
Alaska February 16·27 to attend the annual Fur Rendezvous and Miss Alaska
Pageant.
Miss Ray is the North Carolina Straw·
berry Queen; Miss Zollars, the North
Carolina Blueberry Queen. Pam was also
the 1966 Methodist College May Queen.
Attired in fur parkas ~nd boots (gifts
of Fur Rendezvous), the two went
through a flurry of activities in the
snow country. On their agenda was a
visit to Alaska Methodist University
where they presented letters of introduction from Methodist's Dean Womack
to Alaska's Dean Frost.
From their base in Anchorage (at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jones)
the campus beauties attended the Miner
and Trappers Ball and a Fur Fashion
Show where they tried on Alaska furs,
"everything from seal to mink."
One highlight of the trip, as the girls
called it, was entertaining children at
the North Star Elementary School. Both
Joy and Pam are elementary education
majors.
Their first ride on a dog sled came
when they appeared on the Bill Kelly
television show. Later in the week Pam
put the experience to good use, winning
the Celebrity Dog Race at the Fur Rendezvous Ice Show.
As visiting queens the two appeared
in the Miss Alaska Pageant Parade,
which is somewhat different from those
in North Carolina, they said. The girls
still have to weather the cold, so they
wear' fur parkas rather
than formal
gowns.
In accordance with her title, Miss
Zollars presented Alaska Governor Hickel with a blueberry pie. They also pre·
sented the Governor and Anchorage
Mayor George Sullivan with the Order
of the Long Leaf Pine and took with
them miniature bales of cotton sent by
the Board of County Commissioners and
keys to the city sent by Fayetteville
Mayor Monroe Evans.
First Wedding Solemnized On Campus
Teresa Jeanine Faulkner became
the bride of Robert Clark Flynn
March 9, 1968 in the first wedding
ceremony to be performed on the
Methodist College campus.
The bride, given in marriage by her
grandfather,
Johnny Moss, wore a
floor-length gown of organza and
chantilly lace styled with an empire
waistline and a chapel train. Her illusion veil was draped from a headpiece of petals with seed pearls.
Miss Drusilla Taylor of Alexandria,
Va. was maid of honor. She wore a
floor-length gown of blue and white
and carried a basket of mixed spring
flowers. The groom had as his best
man Anthony Whisler of Waynesboro,
Pa .. Both Miss Taylor and Whisler are
students at Methodist.
Dr. Lorenzo Plyler, area chairman
of religion and philosophy at Methodist, performed the 3 p.m. ceremony
in the chapel.
Mrs. Flynn, the daughter of Mrs.
Geraldine M. Faulkner of Raleigh
and the late Charles L. Faulkner, is a
freshman majoring in English. Her
husband, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Flynn of Roxboro, is a sophomore majoring in religion and planning to enter the ministry.
MR. and MRS. ROBERT
FLYNN
Student Teachers Placed
Chorus Gives Concert, Completes
Tour
The Methodist College Chorus delivered
its annual spring concert March 30, its
first campus appearance after an extensive concert tour throughout the piedmont
and western North Carolina region. Thirty voices strong, the chorus is a select
group of young men and women under the direction of Alan M. Porter, instructor
in voice. The spring concert included both sacred and secular music such as "In'
flammatus et Accensus" from STABAT MATER by Rossini; "Hava Nageela", an.
Israeli folk song; and "Blowin' In the Wind" by Bob Dylan. The program presented
by thE; chorus on its tour included such sacred choruses as those by Bach, Mozart,
and Rossini. New hymns from the 1966 edition of The Methodist Hymnal were also
sung. In addition to its concert tour, the chorus provided special music at the District Lay Rallies of The North Carolina Conference of The Methodist Church at
New Bern, Burlington and Rockingham. The next on·campus performance will be
May 11.
Garden Club Lends HANDS For Campus Project
Campus beautification
has led the
college Science Club to join hands with
the Town and Coun~ry Garden Club of
Fayetteville.
The Science Club, working in cooperation with the city-wide HANDS program
of the garden club, plans to beautify the
Science Building courtyard. For several
months P. J. Crutchfield, assistant professor of biology and Science Club adviser, has worked with the students in
developing a plan to put this area to
aesthetic as well as scientific use.
When the Town and Country Garden
Club learned of the need for help with
the project, the cooperative effort began. Mrs. David Drake is garden club
chairman for the campus HANDS project.
Now with the assistance of the HANDS
program, soil preparation has already
begun. The plans call for three semicircular beds of native plants, the first
showing the total spectrum of plants,
the second demonstrating the fou):"major
plant habitats, and the third illustrating
the effects of different kinds of soils
on the distribution of plants.-
Thirty-five Methodist College students
have been placed in teaching internships
for the spring semester, according to Dr.
Karl H. Berns, area chairman of education and psychology and director of stu·
dent teaching.
A breakdown of the list shows 32
teaching on the elementary level inside
Cumberland County and 2 outside (Goldsboro and Sanford). Twelve students will
take teacher internships within the Fayetteville City Schools and one will intern
on the secondary level in Cumberland
County.
In addition four students who are
music majors will be working within the
music program for grades 1-12 in the
Fayetteville
and Cumberland County
Schools.
The teaching internships run from
March 21 to June 7.
FacuIty Footnotes
Dr. William C. Cooper was in Washington, D. C. at the National Science
Foundation where he helped evaluate
some 375 requests from colleges and
universities for financial support of their
science program. Dr. Garland Knott has
had an article accepted for publication
by The Christian Home magazine published by the Methodist Church for parents and youth. Mrs. Janet Cavano and
Mr. B. L. Crisp will take leaves of absence for the 1968-69 academic year in
order to complete Ph.D. programs. Dr.
L. P. Plyler has been appointed to a
Fellowship in the Fourth Session of the
Southern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. His seminar assignment is "The Transmission of Biblical
Texts in the Middle Ages."
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